Holy Curator’s Dream, Batman!
If you like history and costume and paintings (oh my) stop reading this and go play at the Rijksmuseum.
Hot tip: search for “jak” or “japon” if you’re looking for jackets and dresses.
The zoom feature is amazing, and the collections are clearly drop-dead awesome. Only a tiny fraction are digitized, but what has been is astonishing. Look at that jacket! It’s dated 1810-1820, but earlier fabric.
What are you still doing here? Go visit!
Wow, such a low waist for 1810-20! But gorgeous use of material.
Thanks so much for sharing this!
Nancy N
Yes, I know. It looks more like 1780-1790 to me. But it could be 1840 as the waist moves down…maybe…I’d like to see the front. I can only guess about what it looks like, but it would tell us a lot.